Cyrillic (Russian) in MS Windows(Reading and Writing; Encodings)

The information on this site lets you read and write in Russian in most Windows
applications such as Web browsers/e-mail, word processors, etc.
This can be done in a standard, non-Russian (f.e. U.S. English)
version of MS Windows.

The information on this site lets you read and write in Russian in most
general Windows applications such as Web browsers/e-mail, word processors, etc.
This can be done in a standard, non-Russian (f.e. U.S. English)
version of MS Windows.

For subjects that are NOT discussed on my site
(Cyrillic for UNIX or Macintosh computers;specialty programs that require a special tune-up for Russian, such as say
Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Flash, etc.)
please see the section
"More Russification. Q&A, Links"
that contains corresponding links to other people's pages.

How to read and write in Russian using
non-Russian (f.e. U.S. English)
version of Windows:

Reading in Russian
To read in Russian, you need to have Russian fonts
and become familiar with the encoding methods for Cyrillic letters.
The corresponding instruction
(including free Cyrillic fonts for download, if needed)
for all versions of Windows (Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT 4.0/ME/98/95/3.1)
can be found in the section of this site called"Cyrillic fonts and encodings under Windows"

If you need to input Russian, but can not activate keyboard tools
of the computer -
for example, you are in an Internet cafe or in a library -
then read the section of this site called"On-screen keyboard"

Create a directory (folder) for Anton's program, for example C:\RUSCVT.
Open .ZIP file that you choose for your version of MS Windows in this
directory(folder),
and then read Anton's instructions(in Russian) - a file with a .TXT extension
in KOI8-R or CP-1251(win) encoding.

After doing this, read the following instructions.

How to easily call up the program later:

Windows 3.1, 3.11 - an icon in Program Manager:

Place your cursor on any icon in a Group where you want to
put CCVT ver. 1.02, for instance in Accessories.

Select File / New in the Program Manager menu.

Choose Program Item and press OK.

In the next window, type c:\ruscvt\ccvt.exe on the
Command line and press OK.

I created a new Table for this program that allows me to quickly convert
a plain text file (for example, a book downloaded from the Web or a
HTML file - my article in Russian) between KOI8-R and CP-1251(Windows) :

KOI-1251.tab

I also created 2 DOS batch files to simplify KOI8-R <--> CP-1251
conversion:

KOI-WIN.bat - from KOI8-R to CP-1251

WIN-KOI8.bat - from CP-1251 to KOI8-R

You may download these 3 files. They are inside
KOI-1251.zip.
Just click on this underlined file name.

After extracting these 3 files from KOI-1251.zip, you need
to copy them into corresponding directories:

If you want to ask me a question, then PLEASE
do not do it until you read my page"More Russification"(Questions and Answers, Links)
that may already contain the answer.(Examples - AOL software and no Russian in e-mail, Mac and Russian, etc.)(I spend a lot of time answering e-mails
and do not want to end up like the person I know who closed his page,
because people did not read his text but instead
immediately asked him a question...)

Here is my e-mail address and you can send me a letter (remove blank spaces before and after '@'):Pavel @ winrus.com

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Disclaimer
This article is a result of my personal research,
not related to a company I work for.

The author does not and cannot warrant the information, documentation, or
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To the extent you use or implement this information,
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